[Dog Gone]

I grew up thinking that guy was so cool. First I heard that he fought in the Battle of the Bulge, though.

Farewell, Hoyt.

[BluesDuke]

If I'm not mistaken, Warren Spahn was another Hall of Fame pitcher who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Not to mention Yogi Berra being on a Navy gunboat in the Mediterranean (this was before he had ever been brought up by the Yankees) and Lew Brissie, subsequently a courageous starter and reliever for the Philadelphia Athletics and the Cleveland Indians, having his leg nearly blown off in a ground battle (he was the only survivor of his platoon from that battle), then having it surgically rebuilt (he begged his doctors to save the leg because he had a pre-war promise from Connie Mack for a tryout) and braced so he could pitch. Those are just some of the World War II battle stories I know of involving baseball players (Ted Williams, of course, was mostly a flight instructor for World War II but flew up a storm in the Korean War)...